Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey – Episode 8
SISTERS OF THE SUN
“Nothing lasts forever… Even the stars die”
[If time permits, please review Symphony of Science’s Glorious Dawn.]
1. We pulled the stars from the skies and brought them down to Earth. But when we turned on all these lights, we lost something precious:
2. Humans were not the fastest or strongest of the animals we competed
against, but we did have one thing going for us:______
One aspect of that is ______recognition.
3. The Pleiades
• Each of them is ______times brighter than our Sun.
• The brightest one is ______times brighter than our Sun.
• They’ve been used as a/n ______test all over the world.
• They are related to a Celtic holiday now known as ______.
• Are connected to a mythical origin story of ______Tower.
4. Pickering’s “Computers” mapped and ______the stars.
• Annie Jump ______was the leader of the team.
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered the law astronomers use to measure
5. English astronomer Cecilia Payne had to emigrate to
______in order to study astronomy.
6. When Russell dismissed Payne’s conclusions on the composition stars,
A. she stood her ground and pushed ahead without his approval.
B. amended her conclusions, suggesting they were in error.
C. abandoned the pursuit of academics and moved to Downton Abbey.
7. The stars of the Pleiades are in the process of moving
8. The super hot gas in the Sun’s interior pushes ______
while its ______pulls it ______.
9. At present, the Sun fuses hydrogen. In a future phase, it will fuse
______.
10. The Sun will eventually devour
The Sun’s final state will be as a white ______.
11. The fate of a blue giant like Rigel is
The huge star, Alnilam, will collapse to become a
12. The aboriginal people of the Australian outback saw patterns in the
13. Eta Carinae pours out ______times as much light as our own Sun.
It will eventually die in a ______.
14. All the atoms that make up our world were made
15. Will Orion eventually catch the Pleiades? Why/Why not?
16. From a planet orbiting a star in a distant globular cluster, a still more glorious dawn awaits: not a sunrise, but a
…the rising of the